Category: Monitoring and Accountability
Subcategory: Data Collection, Review, and Reporting of Discipline Policies and Actions
State: Virginia
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§ 9.1-184. Virginia Center for School and Campus Safety created; duties.
A. From such funds as may be appropriated, the Virginia Center for School and Campus Safety (the Center) is hereby established within the Department. The Center shall:
4. Develop a case management tool for the collection and reporting of data by threat assessment teams pursuant to § 22.1-79.4.
§ 22.1-279.10. School resource officers; data.
The Department of Criminal Justice Services, in coordination with the Department of Education and the Department of Juvenile Justice, shall annually collect, report, and publish on its website data on the use of force against students, including the use of chemical, mechanical, or other restraints and instances of seclusion; detentions of students; arrests of students; student referrals to court or court service units; and other disciplinary actions by school resource officers involving students. Such data shall (i) be published in a manner that protects the identities of students and (ii) be disaggregated by local school division and by student age, grade, race, ethnicity, gender, and disability, if such data is available.
§ 22.1-279.3:1. Reports of certain acts to school authorities.
C. The principal or his designee shall submit a report of all incidents required to be reported pursuant to this section to the superintendent of the school division. The division superintendent shall annually report all such incidents to the Department of Education for the purpose of recording the frequency of such incidents on forms that shall be provided by the Department and shall make such information available to the public.
In submitting reports of such incidents, principals and division superintendents shall accurately indicate any offenses, arrests, or charges as recorded by law-enforcement authorities and required to be reported by such authorities pursuant to subsection B.
8 VAC 20-560-10. Reportable incidents.
The principal of each public school shall collect and maintain information on the following events which occur on school property, on a school bus, or at a school-sponsored activity, and shall report the information semi-annually to the division superintendent on dates established by the superintendent. The division superintendent shall submit annually to the Department of Education, on forms provided by the department, an aggregate report of such incidents on or before the last day of October.
1. Incidences of crime and violence.
a. Physical battery.
(1) On school personnel by students.
(2) On students by students.
(3) On students by persons other than students.
b. Sexual battery.
(1) On school personnel by students.
(2) On students by students.
(3) On students by persons other than students.
c. Homicides.
(1) On school personnel by students.
(2) On students by students.
(3) On students by persons other than students.
d. Possession of weapons.
e. Possession of alcohol.
f. Possession of drugs.
g. Possession of tobacco products.
2. Students involved in incident of crime and violence.
a. Total number of students involved in physical assaults.
(1) Perpetrator (categorized by grade and gender).
(2) Victims (categorized by grade and gender).
b. Total number of students involved in sexual battery.
(1) Perpetrator (categorized by grade and gender).
(2) Victims (categorized by grade and gender).
c. Total number of students involved in homicides.
(1) Perpetrator (categorized by grade and gender).
(2) Victims (categorized by grade and gender).
d. Total number of students involved in possession of weapons (categorized by grade and gender).
e. Total number of students involved in possession of alcohol (categorized by grade and gender).
f. Total number of students referred (by self or others) for assistance with substance abuse problems (categorized by grade and gender).
g. Total number of students involved in possession of drugs (categorized by grade and gender).
8 VAC 20-730-30. Data collection and reporting.
Data collection shall begin on the first day students attend for the school year.Each school division shall provide student level attendance data for each student that includes the number of unexcused absences in a manner prescribed by the Virginia Department of Education. A student's attendance is cumulative and begins on the first official day of the school year or the first day the student is officially enrolled. All nonattendance days are cumulative and begin with the first absence. For purposes of this data collection, truancy shall start with the first unexcused absence and will be cumulative. Data shall be reported to the Virginia Department of Education pursuant to § 22.1-258 of the Code of Virginia and 8VAC20-730-20.
8 VAC 20-750-90. Annual reporting.
The principal or the principal's designee shall submit to the division superintendent a report on the use of physical restraint and seclusion in the school based on the individual incident reports completed and submitted to the principal or the principal's designee by school personnel pursuant to 8VAC20-750-60 C. The division superintendent shall annually report the frequency of such incidents to the Superintendent of Public Instruction [ ] and shall make such information available to the public.